Colossal Cave screenshots

Title screen / start menu

Good guidelines for most games!

Setting up a new game

Establishing the player's name

Starting location!

Plenty of potential inventory items plus some background on the development

Not only my first treasure, but also a valuable magic word!

Matching verbs and nouns

I hope this magic word doesn't come as too great a spoiler, but there's got to be some statute of limitations on these things.

High score table

Colossal Cave